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24 They will become thin from hunger.
    Terrible diseases will destroy them.
I will send wild animals against them.
    Poisonous snakes and lizards will bite them.
25 In the streets, soldiers will kill them.
    In their houses, terrible things will happen.
Soldiers will kill young men and women.
    They will kill babies and old people.

26 “‘I thought about destroying the Israelites
    so that people would forget them completely!

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24 I will send wasting famine(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence(B) and deadly plague;(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(D)
    the venom of vipers(E) that glide in the dust.(F)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(G) will reign.(H)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(I)
26 I said I would scatter(J) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(K)

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